Just some old pics from my regular walking route (and testing some new stuff on the site).
Within the gallery are a few pics that may interest SL Sailing folks; In particular some signs with info about the original New York Yacht Club (home of the Americas Cup). The building next to the actual sign appears setup to hold canoes, but has been empty since it was built.
–TSK
Upgraded my sites to WordPress 2.7 today. Things have mostly been happy, but there’s some kinda problem with cforms (in particular after I needed to upgrade that separately). So, that’s down yet again. *sigh* I’ll check on it later.
More interestingly, after fiddling with the cforms admin panels for awhile (which I hate due to its slow response), I gave up and went back to my site page, and back to Admin/Dashboard. Which I suddenly could not load (all pages – including the main page – said unreachable by FF). Removing cforms altogether, followed by a login through IE, has fixed the problem for now.
Oh well. I guess its time to look at comment systems again. This time something dead simple on the admin side.
/salute
–TSK
… And can ya guess what I’ve been playing lately? ;-)
Actually, it really was Portal until a short while ago. I made the mistake of downloading the demo of Bejeweled Twist (which, a few days later, I unlocked for the full version). I now have versions of the regular HL games that work with my current monitor resolution; And with steam’s version of the Blue Shift hi-def pack enabled, even third-party mods look nicer. It’s made me wonder why I didn’t get involved with Steam sooner.
Much like Uru, actually….
I’ve heard the news of course – Seemed like every other MystBlogs post talked about it for the weekend. And I first got word of it myself last Sat, through an announcement sent through the Steam community group ‘Uru Rocks.’ Still letting the news sit with me, and seeing what followup news comes from Cyan. I may post a response via an article to GoMe, or contribute to someone else’s ‘reaction request.’ Dunno yet, but whatever I eventually say it will be mirrored here.
The more interesting news is that I’ve begun to poke about with the Mysterium Committee, to see if I can help in any capacity. More on that once I get acclimated to the idea of helping others in larger scales again (something I stopped doing when I initially got disillusioned with Second Life – mid-2006 I think).
Work, of course, has been ‘interesting’ (Financial Sector, remember?). I’m half-tempted to tear down my earlier ‘relax’ post, since that looks rather lame now, but I still have my job – which, unnervingly, means something right now. 2009 is on-track to be even more interesting (which I’ll have to stop discussing now, as we once again hit my personal ‘ethics’ line which I refuse to cross).
*sigh* Ah well, I suppose we’ll just have to see what the future brings us all, eh? Lets hope its for the better…
/salute
–TSK
Ran into a new rash of comment spam that came in last week, didn’t notice it since they were mostly on old posts.
I used to have a plugin active that automatically closed comments for older posts; I had disabled that since Defensio’s been doing so well.
Dumb, eh? Anyway, I’ve turned it back on and this post is being made to update the database.
I’ll get around to something akin to a *real* update later. ;-)
/salute
–TSK
I’ve been wearing my grandfather’s coat today; My aunt gave it to me about a year after his death, and despite wanting to give it away I never have. But the cold weather, and the loss of my regular coat to a hopelessly stuck zipper, has made me fall back on this one for now.
It’s a black 1970’s era winter coat, made by CasualCraft for A&S. There’s a very good chance that its as old as I am, perhaps older, and looks almost new. It reminds me so much of him and my grandmother, who fill my earliest memories more than that of my mother and father. Though they were uncertain and confusing times back them, it was also happy, in its own way.
The coat fits me perfectly. It could well last another 30 years or more.
I still miss him and his stories, so long ago…
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